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Article content On April 4, 2017, Sarah Halimi, a 65-year-old retired Jewish schoolteacher and doctor in Paris, France, was murdered in her apartment. Her assailant, Kobili Traore, an immigrant from Mali, brutally assaulted her and threw her out the window in an unprovoked attack. Halimi was the only Jewish resident in her apartment building, and when her assailant murdered her, he allegedly shouted “Allahu Akbar” and “I killed the Satan,” leading to the widespread conclusion that Halimi’s murder was driven by antisemitic motivations.  We apologize, but this video has failed to lo...

8 shares A woman holds up a sign during the day of rallies around the world protesting the French judicial system's handling of the Sarah Halimi case, April 25, 2021. (Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images/ via JTA) JTA — The 2017 murder of a Jewish woman in France has again burst into global view, with protests held in several countries last week against a legal ruling that means her killer will not face a trial for murder. But who is Sarah Halimi? Why is her death becoming a cause celebre for Jews around the world? And what, if anything, are the protests aimed at changing for Jews in France?

A memorial made by the Jewish community is seen in front of the Consulate General of France on April 25, 2021 in Los Angeles, California to demand justice for Sarah Halimi (Apu GOMES / AFP) JTA — Paris will soon inaugurate in its historic Jewish quarter a street named for Sarah Halimi, Mayor Anne Hidalgo said amid protests over authorities’ handling of the killing. Hidalgo made the announcement on Sunday following a rally by about 20,000 people, mostly Jews, who demonstrated against the April 14 ruling by France’s highest court on the 2017 slaying. “We need to honor Sarah Halimi’s m...

The Court of Cassation – France’s highest court for all criminal and civil cases – ruled on April 14 that Kobili Traoré, a migrant from the Muslim-majority West African nation of Mali, would not stand trial or be held criminally responsible for allegedly killing 65-year-old Sarah Halimi, a retired physician and Orthodox Jewish woman, in Paris in 2017. In doing so, it upheld a lower court decision. According to The Guardian, “French courts have recognised the killing as an antisemitic crime but declared that 32-year-old Traore, currently in a psychiatric hospital, could not be tried ...

(JTA) — Paris will soon inaugurate in its historic Jewish quarter a street named for Sarah Halimi, Mayor Anne Hidalgo said amid protests over authorities’ handling of the killing. Hidalgo made the announcement on Sunday following a rally by about 20,000 people, mostly Jews, who demonstrated against the April 14 ruling by France’s highest court on the 2017 slaying. “We need to honor Sarah Halimi’s memory. And that’s what we’ll do,” Hidalgo said in a statement, France3 reported Tuesday. “There will be a Sarah Halimi Street. It will be a way of achieving justice for her.” The...